ambivalent

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/    美 /æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
    — In modern burlesque [...] sexual and erotic stimuli are often present in concealed and ambivalent doubles entendres.
  2. Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
    — His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.

词形变化

more ambivalent comparative most ambivalent superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
ambivalently nonambivalent preambivalent unambivalent
相关词
ambiguous ambivalence equivalent

词源

Back-formation from ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways”) + valeō (“be strong”); equivalent to ambi- + -valent. Compare ambivert.
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